[mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)

Greg Estabrooks greg at phaze.org
Tue Sep 20 19:38:02 UTC 2005


> Thanks for the insight.  If I just keep it as MPEG2, what kind of file size 
> should I expect?  I'm imagining about a gigabyte per hour.  Is that high, 
> low, other? 

 That really depends on your bitrate and how clean your signal is.  
I get about 2.3 to 2.6 Gig an hour.   If I lower it to only get around a gig
it looks horrible.



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